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...film than the broad theatrical gestures of most stars. Audiences loved his sharp good looks and the animal elegance with which he took charge of a woman. Thereafter he played nobles and villains, whom the leading lady finds instantly attractive but must ultimately renounce (unless she was played by Tsuru Aoki, another Japan-born Hollywood star who was, for 47 years, Hayakawa's wife). In a society as officially white as America in the 1910s, Hayakawa was a pioneer: the first Japanese superstar of Hollywood films. So far, alas, he is also the last...
...Tsuru, who after World War II served as vice-minister of the Japanese Economic Stabilisation Board, 'became president of Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University in 1972, a post he held until...
...Tsuru wrote in his Fiftieth Aniversary Report that he had been pressured four times within the last two decades to run as governor of Tokyo...
...Some of my American friends, including Ken Galbraith, suggested that I should run, but Masako, my wife, took a rather ambivalent position: that is, she would support my candidacy if she were not Mrs. Tsuru, implying that a need for divorce action in case of my running." Tsuru wrote in his report...
...Tsuru is also considered a founder of the Japanese environmental movement...